5 Reasons You Shouldn't Care About Lil' Wayne's Thunder Arena Ticket Shenanigans

If you follow sports, there's a good chance you're following the NBA playoffs. The Spurs were the talk of the Nation with their twenty game win streak that ended in a stunning 4-2 (four in a row for the Thunder) route by the Durant and Company.

It was an amazing series to watch and there are plenty of newsworthy tidbits that popped up from the surprising series. Questions that will fuel sports analyst's debates until the 2012-2013 season. (Will Tim Duncan finally retire? Can the Spurs still hang? What will Charles Barkley do next?)

But, interestingly enough, the biggest, most talked about story (at least on Twitter) to come out of the Thunder/Spurs series had nothing to do with basketball.

It had to do with Lil' Wayne. 

Of course it did.

Reportedly, (So reportedly, in fact, that I felt the need to restate the word in italics.) Lil' Wayne was denied entrance to the Chesapeake Energy Arena for game 3 of the Western Conference Finals.

Lil' Wayne tweeted his displeasure (Oh, Twitter, the things you inspire us to say.) "Was going to go to the Thunder game tonight but was denied by the team to be in their arena. Wow. Smh. Go Spurs!"

 Now. If Lil' Wayne was actually denied to be in the Arena for any reason other than "didn't have a ticket," or "was carrying a weapon," I would sound the Call to Arms. Long live the People's rights! Especially when they rap reasonably well and not all of their lyrics suck! Yeah!

But when the reason actually is, "Doesn't have ticket," I kind of lose some steam.

So here are my 5 Reasons You Shouldn't Care About Lil' Wayne's Thunder Arena Ticket Shenanigans: 

1: The Thunder have sold out every single home playoff game this season. Every single one.  In fact, they are already sold out of season tickets for the 2012-2013 season.  Whether or not you're rich, famous and good looking doesn't really come into the debate. If you don't have a ticket, and all these other people do, and there aren't any seats left, you're not getting in. This is called Capitalism. Or even deductive reasoning.

2: Lil' Wayne wanted a front row seat. Court side. Sigh. I can possibly see Thunder Management pulling strings and getting him in a box. I can see them asking a "normal" fan to give up their seat for some kind of reimbursement.

But the people who sit front row during Conference Finals? They put large amounts of money down. Some of those people probably make more money than Lil' Wayne. Taking their seats could actually mean a lawsuit. That they themselves may be able to pursue. Because they could be lawyers. Comedy logic, Weezy, it could be true.

3: Is he even a Thunder Fan? I thought he liked sizzurp and cash money. Doesn't that mean he should be a Heat fan? I jest, I jest. He should be an early 2000's Trail Blazers fan. 

4: He made it a race thing. ["That's not the point, though," he told The Associated Press in an interview Friday night. "It's the players stepping up but of course the players aren't white. I don't want to be sitting there on behalf of you and I'm sitting next to a (person) that's like, 'I don't want this (guy) sitting next to me.' (Forget) you ... I'm in Forbes," he said, laughing.]

How? How do you even make the tickets being sold out a race thing?

In other news, Lil' Wayne goes to grocery store, but they're sold out of cookie dough ice cream, because they're freaking racists. 

5: Just to bundle this in with the race thing (italics aren't italicsy enough for that) he (in the above quote) blames the fans for not wanting him there. What? What type of indirect logic is this. I'm going to follow it through for you in a few easy steps. (I didn't say they'd be logical, but they aren't my steps.) 


FIRST: The Thunder make it to the Western Conference Finals.  

SO NOW: It's Game 3 (their first home game.)  

THEREFORE: People, i.e. fans, want to go see the game live.  

DUE TO THIS: They buy tickets to go watch the game at the arena.

BASED ON HOW MANY SEATS ARE PHYSICALLY IN THE ARENA: The tickets sell out.  

"KEVIN DURANT IS A G": Lil' Wayne decides he wants to see the game, too.  

SEE "TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT": He can't purchase a ticket. Or even, there are no tickets, for to buy.

IPSO FACTO: The fans hate Lil' Wayne. 

"Was going to go to the Thunder game tonight but was denied by the team to be in their arena. Wow. Smh. Go Spurs!" Wayne tweeted.

Read more at: http://www.nesn.com/2012/06/rapper-lil-wayne-mad-at-thunder-for-denying-him-from-entering-arena-without-ticket.html

"Was going to go to the Thunder game tonight but was denied by the team to be in their arena. Wow. Smh. Go Spurs!"

Read more at: http://www.nesn.com/2012/06/rapper-lil-wayne-mad-at-thunder-for-denying-him-from-entering-arena-without-ticket.html

"Was going to go to the Thunder game tonight but was denied by the team to be in their arena. Wow. Smh. Go Spurs!"

Read more at: http://www.nesn.com/2012/06/rapper-lil-wayne-mad-at-thunder-for-denying-him-from-entering-arena-without-ticket.html